Today people will use their mobile devices to connect, create, and learn in ways that most can't imagine.
Schools are resistant and fear the disruption that mobile access might cause and the changes that might be online.
The current slate of mobile devices have their limitations.
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Should students be taught to use mobile devices well?
So does this mean students are going to start using technology instead of paper in the classroom.
Can this mean students won't have to go to school to learn because they have mobile devices.
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The analog, 20th century curriculum that most classrooms deliver doesn't fit well with the realities of the exploding mobile, digital world.
Kids are stuck in a paper-based, local-learning system that doesn't acknowledge the global, networked, always-on opportunities that mobile access affords.
There are still better technology options for constructive, meaningful learning that provide power and flexability that phones can't, like laptops.
For many kids right now, especially lower income, these devices are their only connections to the content and people who can help them learn great things.
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